An old house, a white bread geek, a japanese transvestite, a really tall lesbian, and at least one ghost. Ace shares a house with some interesting roommates. – 100% CG – Adult situations and artistic nudity. – Not suitable for children.

Ace: Farah? You're alive? There was a sensor report that your main drives blew and you were on a ramming course.

Farah: That was the plan, but only one was really bad. I manged to fix the other with parts from the bad one, some spares and fabricated parts, 3 hair pins, and the expert guidance of my beautiful tin sister, Ruby Begonia! AND IT WAS EASY!! I wouldn't fly home on it, but it's good enough to maneuver and power the weapons so that we can blow holes in things. Ace, how did you know I'd come back?

Ace: Easy, cowards don't lead palace coups.

Ruby: I really just read to her from the service manual. There's very little tin in my matrices. I'm mostly graphine, silicon and gold.

Farah: It's a metaphor, Hun.

Ruby: Like the Tin Woodsman? But he was a cyborg, wasn't he?

Farah: But human where it mattered! So, Sky, what do you think of your air-head cousin now?

Ace: I'm sorry, but Lady B'Van Si, the renegade Dilmun that was really behind everything thinks Sky got killed trying to detach the module. Lady Banshee, I think you know Lady Farah, even if you haven’t really met. Farah, Ruby, I hope I can introduce the three of you later, but right now I'm trying to get her to drop her plans to bomb Earth back into the Stone Age.

Farah: Give it up, Your Ladyship! He'll have pieces in play you don't even know exist, and you'll probably find out that you're one of them. But right now, we're going to come back around and blow more holes in that thing. I suggest it be evacuated since we're not going to stop until it's drifting wreckage.

Hoping that Skye-clad is listening in (and very pleased with her ‘air-head cousin’), just not in a position to respond (either can’t, because she doesn’t have a means to, or won’t because she would give away the fact she is not dead)

Did Farrah read to Ruby while they were drifting/repairing, or did Ruby learn about Oz from Rusty?

The fact Farrah is not snivvling at the news about her cousin shows she is not the airhead she’s been previously portrayed as (there is a time for grieving, and in the middle of a fight is not one of them)

If the override is off, then the big ship won’t have to crash into earth unless the override gets re-established. That ship can now do what it wants.

Lady Si can still control her own ship, and might be able to repair it.We don’t know how much is damaged, except the damage is localized in one place.

I think it might have been better for Farah not to admit she could still maneuver, or announce she was returning for another shot. It might be best for her to aim her next shots at where she thinks the modules weapons might be, or their controls. It would be hard to sacrifice Ace to get Lady Si while it looks like they’re winning, and if Lady Si is killed then it’s a lot harder to interrogate her for useful information. Killing her now might be the best thing to do, but it’s a hard time to make that choice.

Lacking anything else, Lady Si has Ace for a hostage. And she probably has implants that can control Dilmun technology she can communicate with, even without her module. It isn’t safe to let her onto the big ship.

If she surrenders, probably the safest thing would be to put her in a pressure suit and tow her at a considerable distance, while thinking about how to cage her.

If this were a chess game, then Ace’s allies play the following roles:
The K’sel: pawns
GL: rook
Farrah: bishop
AIs: knights
Skye: queen
Ace: king
In chess a good player can win in 3 moves and Ace’s are as follows:
1. Setting Farrah on the path to redemption
2. Forming and alliance with the K’sel
3. Setting Skye up to do what she does best
Put all that together and there is only one result, checkmate.

I believe you are forgetting that Ruby and Farah activated a stealth function right after they set the collision course. In most works, stealth has to be deactivated when firing weapons, so they may be in trouble except that it seems the module has lost power.

Stealth need never be deactivated. But using a weapon does tend to produce a detectable profile, whether bullets, bomb, missile or beam. A leopard loses stealth when it eats a primate’s face, though the fur stays the same.

No ships were disabled. Rusty, unfortunately, is far less durable than even a shuttle. It’s a makeshift anti-personnel measure. If it could have been used against the fighter, it would have been used so. It wasn’t, so it can’t.

Oak: they didn’t activate a stealth function on purpose, after that explosion that blew out the engines, they lost all communication, Ace and co knew what they were up to, just had no way to talk her out of it